Week 69 - Retiro

On Tuesday we went out with Elder Jones who is a former General Authority who is now on a mission with his wife serving in the Area Offices.  It was pretty crazy because this dude knew a lot of stuff.  He was President Zuniga's (my mission president) mission president 25 years ago and President Zuniga was his Assistant.  We went and visited a couple of families with him and it went really well.

On Thursday we had our interview with the president and he was just roasting everyone basically because the mission isn't having as much success as it should have.  On Friday we had the Leadership Meeting with the zone leaders and sister trainers in the mission home.  Basically there were shots being fired and everyone had a lot of different opinions.  I don't know. I just think that sometimes nothing really gets done in meetings like this.  Less meetings, more working would be better.

Saturday morning we had the baptism of Ruth Choquemamani in the morning. Very few people showed up.  Us, the Elders Quorum President, another member, Ruth, and her mom.  Even though there wasn't a lot of people there it was really nice anyway.  Elder Rodriguez baptized Ruth and she was super-excited during the whole thing.  At the end, someone from the Relief Society showed up to support.  The crazy thing that happened at the end is that the stake had a temple trip and all the members that went to the baptism were also going to the temple. So they invited Ruth and her mom to go and Ruth says that she can go, but the mom (who's not a member) says she can't because she has to work.  But in the end we learned that Ruth's mom ended up going to the temple (we had never taught her, barely even talked to her) and not Ruth.  (Ruth's mom just sat outside the temple.) Sounds like the mom had a great time and now wants to know more.

On Sunday it was fast and testimony meeting and Ruth got up and bore her testimony about how good she felt and how she wanted to invite all her friends and family to church.  We got really excited about that.  It was a very good week and we saw a lot of miracles.

Baptism of Ruth Choquemamani

Baptism of Ruth Choquemamani by Elder Rodriguez

Church Video that Tanner's Dad (Kirt Christensen) appears in, being set
apart by Bishop Steve Willis, from about 2002 in Provo, UT